Developer Uses AI Coding Assistant to Upgrade Old iOS Game to Swift 6
11/12/2026 — 11/12, 06:15·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- A developer spent weeks using an AI coding assistant to upgrade a decade-old iOS arcade game to Swift 6 and republish it on the App Store, h…
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On November 12, 2026, DEV Community's AI section published a first-hand account from a developer who used an AI coding assistant to upgrade a decade-old iOS game from Swift 2 to Swift 6.
The developer originally released Coocader in 2016, a small arcade game for iPhone and iPad that featured some in-game ads. It never really took off, and the developer moved on to other projects, leaving the code untouched for almost ten years.
This autumn, the developer decided to bring the game back to the App Store, explicitly not as a remake but as the same game, modernized properly. Working with an AI coding assistant over a period of several weeks, the developer tackled 588 compiler errors and deleted a large amount of legacy code. The article reviews where AI was actually useful during the refactoring and error-fixing process. The outcome was version 1.1 of Coocader, now live on the App Store.
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A developer used an AI pair programmer to modernize a decade-old iOS arcade game, resolving 588 compiler errors to upgrade it from Swift 2 to Swift 6 and ship version 1.1 to the App Store, sharing insights on AI's actual utility in legacy refactoring.
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